arts informatica

Research Artist In Residence: Edinburgh Informatics

Monday, June 19, 2006

Free Processing!

The new Open Source Processing language is being used to create some very interesting interactive applets on the web. Its free, easy to use and full of powerful tools - vision blob analysis, google searching, quality real time rendering, particle systems etcProcessing is enabling a wide range of people to program - creating powerful interactive real-time generative graphic web ideas, visual tools and simulations.

"Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound"

(simulated interactive real-time smoke web app)

Web graph of this site, grows organically using simulated physics as the site is analysed - see the structure of any website!

This may be the language of choice for the interactive cafe tables proposal and other interactive arts & communications and informatics projects requiring web, visualisation, interaction and real-time simulation - plus its easy to use and develop - and its free.